Is the Grove tourist-ready?
A friend sent me this article in the NY Times, "36 Hours in Miami and Miami Beach" and said to me, "Too bad the Grove is not mentioned."
He may not realize but the Grove is a work in progress for better or worse. CocoWalk looks like a bomb went off, people can't even walk on that side of the street without putting their lives in danger.
The tour buses long bypassed the Grove, if you hadn't noticed, they no longer pass through.
Empty storefronts line the streets, especially the old Johnny Rockets building and even next door to that, where the Guess store used to be.
There is one gallery in town at the Mayfair and this very person tried to get me involved with the mess that is our waterfront, which is still in disarray from Hurricane Irma; and speaking of the waterfront, you can't even eat at Scotty's Landing/Grove Bay Grill currently because it's under construction.
What would be the point of inviting tourist to the Grove. To mortify us?
I think in a year or so, there will be things for people to do and see, but right now, I don't think we are NY Times ready.
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That article was written in mid-November, 2018, as a preview piece for Art Basel, which does not take place in Coconut Grove. Those kinds of pieces are heavily PR-sourced through the Greater Miami Visitor & Tourism Bureau. So the fact that the Grove is not mentioned in that particular story is not surprising. The Grove actually gets plenty of media exposure but it’s true that the level of exposure has lessened over the years as new tourism districts have emerged (Wynwood, Design District, Brickell City Center, etc.).
Why hasn’t Commissioner Russels office made a point to get those 25 wooden houses that were designated Historic in October of 2018 on the tour
For the love of god how much city employee salaried hours were spent on this ordeal
At least give the 25 owners some respect rather than the shade the west grove continues to get
PS not by tree canopy either bc the canopies exist everyone in COCONUT GROVE but West Grove
Kathy Parks Suarez
The FEDs, states, counties, municipalities and villages plant trees. Anyone, anywhere U.S.A. can get a free sapling/tree to plant on their property swale, easement or right-of-way. But, that takes, literally, a person or community to find a shovel, pick it up, dig a hole, remove the rock, roots, gravel, whatever, place the sapling in the ground, water it for months and wait for their community to become a "TREE LINED STREET". This process takes about fifty to one hundred years. Otherwise, it won't get done no matter what! Jobie Steppe
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